Providence Act 2
Providence Act 2 “There’s no gettin’ out. Where I’m from, everything’s like me.” — Brown Jenkin Seamus, down at Galway’s excellent Sub-City Comics doesn’t overly care for Alan Moore. And the main reason appears to be Moore’s many depictions of rape in his work. The writer has explained his reasons for that, but Seamus isn’t buying it. So when I was finished reading Providence Act 1 I was happy to let him know...
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) I would love to be Michael Keaton as he writes his C.V. “I’ve been Batman (twice); I’ve been Birdman (once, and in an admittedly pretentious load of old nonsense); and now I’m The Vulture in the new Marvel Universe movie Spider-Man: Homecoming.” Noticing a trend here? I am. And I’m jealous as all hell. I wish that my C.V could add a few winged and pissed-off super-creatures to it. Keaton is...
Providence Act 1
Providence Act 1 This piece is currently in The Lovecraft eZine This is an overview and as such contains minor spoilers “Today began with one of those blue skies that seems so perfect it can only go on to betray you horribly.” – Robert Black’s Commonplace Book It’s many a long year since I bought an individual comic-book. In fact it may be decades, more like. There’s a fair chance that any interesting long run these...
The Mummy (2017)
Nothing Will Prepare You… The Mummy (2017) “In a culture inured even to the shock of the new, in which today’s news is tomorrow’s history to be forgotten entirely or recycled in some unimaginably debased form, ‘70s movies retain their power to unsettle; time has not dulled their edge, and they are as provocative now as they were the day they were released… The thirteen years between Bonnie and Clyde in 1967 and Heaven’s Gate in 1980...
Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End
Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End Contains Major Spoilers Well now, twice in one week; wonder what that means. Ten or so days ago I found myself left with a feeling of bleak sadness on rereading Stephen King’s Pet Sematary. It was a sort of ‘localised’ sadness: just this recognition of time passing and even ending for those who I love or have loved through the years. Of the Veil pulling back and Oz the Great and Terrible...
Wonder Woman (2017)
Love and Sorrow: Wonder Woman (2017) What a very, very frustrating film. There is so much to like about it. And then there are equally as many scenes where you just grind your teeth at how close they come to making a really interesting superhero film…but not quite close enough. And there’s no getting around it: my main problem is with the casting of Gal Gadot; and since it’s the title role as Diana, the Wonder Woman, that’s kind...
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